For example, your sister tells you about a new car she bought and you think, She can't possibly afford that car on her salary. She's so irresponsible about money.

Or your partner leaves his dirty dishes in the sink before heading out to meet his friends and you think, He's so lazy and sloppy. It drives me bananas.

Throughout the day, every day, you find yourself silently criticizing others.

My co-worker at work has gotten scatter-brained... my neighbor is too nosy... my friend is too self-absorbed with posting selfies on social media...

Single? Always Attracting The Wrong People?

If you're single and find that you're constantly meeting deadbeats, cheaters, liars or emotionally unavailable people, it's not bad luck. You may be unknowingly ATTRACTING a particularly kind of person into your life!

Whom you meet and feel a connection with has everything to do with your core beliefs, fears, doubts and insecurities. In order to attract a genuine love, you must learn to re-program the beliefs and emotions BLOCKING you from finding love. Find out how here:

Or is this a clue about something way deeper and way more fundamental about YOU?

How Your Relationship With Others Brings Up The Next Biggest Thing You Need To Learn About Yourself

When we judge others or feel our "buttons being pushed" by the things they say and do, we may actually be projecting our feelings onto others.

We are accusing others of the very things we disown or reject about ourselves.

Here's how it works...

Let's say you have a fear of rejection that stems from something far back in childhood.

More than likely, you're unaware of this fear. You haven't yet acknowledged it. Or you know about it, but reject that it's an issue.

Your subconscious mind is aware of it, though. And that part of your mind will always seek opportunities to work out this old issue. It will lead you into situations where you can bring that fear into your awareness.

In other words, you will enter into relationships with people who will "trigger" that fear or unacknowledged emotion inside you.

You will attract a relationship where your partner will withdraw, act cold, make plans with his or her friends instead of with you, have a hobby they love that doesn't (or can't) involve you, etc.

Instead of causing you to face and accept your fear, their behavior will cause you to be secretly judgmental or critical.

Instead you think, He never spends time with me, he's off having fun instead of fixing these things around the house, he's wasting money playing golf all day when he should be saving money and spending the day with me.

Another example - let's say that you consider yourself a neat, tidy and financially conservative person. You keep your home and car clean and you never spend more than you make.

But deep down, you're really someone who wishes they could forgo responsibility for a while, kick up their feet, and be self-indulgent for a change.

However, you don't want to admit that to yourself. It's just not something you accept about yourself, for whatever reason. Maybe in childhood you were rejected for being that way.

Your creative mind will actually draw you into situations where you are around people who seem sloppy, irresponsible and flaky.

And instead of admitting that you're a little bit like them, you will find yourself secretly complaining about them.

What Do You Need To Accept About Yourself In Order To Love Yourself?

When you don't, or can't, acknowledge your feelings or accept something about yourself, it's a sign that deep down, you don't love yourself.

And if you don't love yourself, you'll never feel completely at peace with yourself and the world around you.

You'll always find something to complain about, and the people in your life will always seem to be less than perfect, because YOU think you're less than perfect.

Unless you can learn to love yourself, and accept yourself and your feelings, you'll never be able to be fully loved by anyone else, either.

There was a time in my life many years ago when I so badly wanted love and acceptance, but all I did was criticize my (ex) husband and accuse him of being irresponsible and undisciplined.

I had several other unhappy relationships in my before I met Lance. I thought men weren't trustworthy and I was too strong for them. I didn't fully trust them so I kept creating dysfunctional relationships where the men would be emotionally unavailable and untrustworthy.

The truth was, I was not trusting myself and not available to my own emotions. Therefore, I projected those unacknowledged aspects of myself onto others.

I was secretly judgmental.

It wasn't until I had a major breakthrough in my life where I finally learned how to love myself that all that changed.

I met and fell in love with Lance, and exploded my career continued to explode.

I had discovered something transformational. And I needed to share it with the world.

When you learn to love yourself, you'll be able to:

Stop being secretly judgmental or critical of others, because you will accept hidden aspects of yourself.

Feel that you don't need to prove anything to anyone.

Stop hiding, pretending or justifying your feelings.

Feel fully loved by others, without constantly "testing" or questioning their loyalty.

Learning to love yourself in a relationship is seeing that you will create the very situations you need that allow you to experience the parts of yourself you cannot love.

When you do that, you stop seeing the "wrong" in others. You stop being triggered all the time, and you become a less judgmental person.

When you love all of yourself, as if by magic, you will find yourself being completely loved by others.

If you are ready to deep dive into a life long love affair with YOU, join Lance & I at our Healing the Heart Workshop in San Diego, CA March 31 - April 2, 2017.